I don't split them up consciously but I know what you mean. Take my current epic, the Paul/Jack fic. I'm writing it slowly, revising it constantly, posting it at long intervals when I'm happy with it.
I had the idea, it burst in on me, consumed my brain utterly, and it's emerging slowly.
Other times I can get an idea at random, drop everything, race over to the computer (if I'm not already there), hammer it out in ten minutes or so, scan it over for typos, post it and heave a relieved sigh because not writing ones like that is like holding in a sneeze.
Sneeze fics. Heh. I like it :-)
I don't warn readers except obliquely; I'll maybe scatter around the odd 'just dashed this off'. But after three years I think most people are used to the way I write and if it bothers them they'd have stopped reading by now ::shrugs::
Part of it is that when I arrived on LJ - and this is just from my perspective, others may see it differently - LJ wasn't the only place you posted. In fact, LJ was where you posted drafts, got comments that allowed you to polish them up and THEN you posted to lists/archives/BoB, TWoP...
LJ was for the impulses, the snippets, the fragments. It was a private space, a behind the scenes place.
And now it's all changed and for me, at least, LJ is all there is but old habits... I'm used to using my LJ to post my fics in all shapes and sizes, all stages of developement.
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I had the idea, it burst in on me, consumed my brain utterly, and it's emerging slowly.
Other times I can get an idea at random, drop everything, race over to the computer (if I'm not already there), hammer it out in ten minutes or so, scan it over for typos, post it and heave a relieved sigh because not writing ones like that is like holding in a sneeze.
Sneeze fics. Heh. I like it :-)
I don't warn readers except obliquely; I'll maybe scatter around the odd 'just dashed this off'. But after three years I think most people are used to the way I write and if it bothers them they'd have stopped reading by now ::shrugs::
Part of it is that when I arrived on LJ - and this is just from my perspective, others may see it differently - LJ wasn't the only place you posted. In fact, LJ was where you posted drafts, got comments that allowed you to polish them up and THEN you posted to lists/archives/BoB, TWoP...
LJ was for the impulses, the snippets, the fragments. It was a private space, a behind the scenes place.
And now it's all changed and for me, at least, LJ is all there is but old habits... I'm used to using my LJ to post my fics in all shapes and sizes, all stages of developement.